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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dadPWhEhVk&feature=player_embedded

What - bad child acting? I hardly see how that can make for a breathtaking demo. Besides, Portal Process already made those robots. ;)

I miss portal process robots

Wow that was bad.. The only decent thing was the "ripped" John Murphy tune from 28 days/weeks later..

afaik that was a trailer made with a 300 dollar budget to score a 30 million budget from hollywood to redo it with proper CG

what's in the box?

well, it's a CG movie.. and i think the robots look/move gay. Fancy smoke and fire.. but thats probably some clicks in nowadays cg software??? :D

oh I just love the positive vibes of pouet. ;)

Yes, this man managing to get a 30m budget from Hollywood with a 300 dollar budget movie is clearly a bumbling incompetent fool! He probably just clicked a few things and generated everything!

We demosceners are much more competent in doing these kind of things! That's why everybody in the scene is shit rich!

why would you want another 3d-flyby?

I doesn't excite me either, but for what it is, it's actually well made. Complaining that an amateur short film on a shoe string budget does not feature world class child acting (hint: the kid is not an actor) or cutting edge CG is kind of silly and beside the point.

The story here seems similar to the District 9 one: Super low-budget sci-fi short film attracts interest of Hollywood producer (Sam Raimi instead of Peter Jackson this time). Film gets made for 20-30 million. The end.

okkie has leading

It's amazing to see how arrogant demosceners still persist to be even though their art is becoming more obsolete every day.

but but but but... hollywood cannot do flatshaded cubes!!!!

Okkie: you have to grant people the freedom to compare things within their respective fields - if it's a short film, you compare it to other short films (like Gargaj's "what's in the box?" comment, which is a better example of something very similar to this one). It's not that the demoscene RULES SUPREME!!!!!1111 over everything, but just because you can't do it better yourself, it doesn't mean that it is amazing 2000 ultra.

..oh, minus anything Magic has to say about this of course, but that goes for everything. :)

Still, I've encountered this video on several sites and only on Pouet (and yeah, yeah, scene!=pouet yadda yadda) people piss sour flakes.

I guess my comment is not specific to this thread either. I'm just getting fed up with some of the mindsets that persist in the demoscene. I guess I'm getting old...

+1 for okkie ;) obviously we've seen such a thing a few times before, but it's still good to watch a well executed robot city demo :)

+1 okkie

this suxxx, i prefer "dances with pierre kartner"

as a short film it is ok, nothing special or something you would remember in a year's time. Ofcourse a full length film needs alot more than that, but don't forget that it is a collaboration of hundreds of people (not just the director).


As a demo it would be painfully derivative of debris, other "city destruction demos" and ofcourse all of portal process robot demos (which imho cannot be bettered).

Heh, were those Left 4 Dead sfx? I think I recognized the chaingun. Maybe from the same stock collection.

Anyway, nice film, like Gargaj said it reminded me of What's In The Box.

You seem to focus on those crappy robots
But actually the CG is the worse part, the directing and edditing are quite good.
And commonplace idea, well
It's not about what it is about, its how it is about it /Ebert

Hmmh.. didn't know the whole story behind it. Still doesn't make my opinion on the overall quality different. To elaborate a bit more on my gripe: the robot movements were bad, the flying things were horrible,the robot design was ugly and the whole "everything engulfed in slow-motion flames while cars flip over" gave me really bad flashbacks of the inanity of ID4.

Props for the guy for getting a film contract, anyways. At least that way he'll probably get a better particle renderer for the smoke and explosions.

i liked this! i guess i am just easy to impress as i also like a lot of the things you fellas on the demoscene make.

so what are you saying is that i should like it just because it has 15000 positive ratings on youtube

WELL MAYBE I WILL, CAUSE ITS XMAS, AHAHA